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Most companies deploying AI models right now cannot prove what's actually running in production. Jesse Williams, Co-founder and COO of Jozu and former VP at Docker, built infrastructure that cuts model audit compilation from three weeks to seconds while solving the security gap keeping enterprise teams awake at night. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Jesse about the moment defense contractors discovered their ML pipeline had no single source of truth, how a malicious prompt change slipped into AWS developer tools unnoticed, and why KitOps packages everything into cryptographically signed artifacts. Jesse shares how one team wasted 80 developer hours creating audit logs that Jozu now generates automatically, why infrastructure-level ethics matter more than model guardrails when a Chevy chatbot sold a car for one dollar, and his prediction that we'll soon see the first billion-dollar company run by 10 people as AI levels the playing field globally.Want to experience secure AI deployment? Visit jozu.com and kitops.org to access the open source framework and enterprise platform making ML governance automatic.#AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI #AIInfrastructure #DevOpsAI #LeadWithAI #FutureOfAI #AIMissionControl #ModelOps #ResponsibleAI #TechInnovation #OpenSourceAI Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | Podbean: Lead-with-AI-Podcast | YouTube: @LeadWithAiPodcast | Facebook: Lead With AI | Instagram: @leadwithaipodcast | TikTok: @leadwithaipodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadWithAiFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Jesse Williams: LinkedIn: @JesseWilliams1Follow Jozu: Website: Jozu.com

Two billion monthly users now interact with Google through conversational AI instead of traditional keyword searches. Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, Director of Product Management for Google Search, leads the team that transformed how humanity discovers information through AI Overviews and AI mode. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Soufi about the query fan out technique that breaks complex questions into subtopics and researches them simultaneously, mimicking how humans naturally reason through problems. Soufi shares how college students navigate career decisions through back-and-forth dialogue with AI mode, how parents plan family vacations by describing nuanced requirements in natural language, and how Search Live allows people to debug appliances simply by pointing their camera and asking questions. She reveals three innovation frontiers reshaping information discovery: agentic capabilities where AI books reservations on your behalf, multi-modal interfaces that understand video and audio inputs, and personalization that remembers your preferences without requiring repetition. For anyone curious about how search evolved beyond blue links and keywords into conversational assistance, Soufi explains what happens when two billion people shift from searching to having conversations.Want to experience the future of search? Visit google.com/ai to access Google's latest AI-powered search capabilities, including AI mode, Search Live, and visual AI features. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | Podbean: Lead-with-AI-Podcast | YouTube: @LeadWithAiPodcast | Facebook: Lead With AI | Instagram: @leadwithaipodcast | TikTok: @leadwithaipodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadWithAiFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Soufi Esmaeilzadeh: LinkedIn: @Soufi-EGoogle Live Search: Website: google.com/ai

What started as morning text prompts to her mother became an AI platform preserving family memories before it's too late. In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall interviews Kimberly Carson, former IBM Watson researcher and founder of Ancestral Echoes, and explains how sensory questions like "What did Sunday morning smell like in your childhood?" unlock stories that heal rather than just create nostalgia. A beta tester who lost her mother unexpectedly found voice memos that felt like letters her mom left behind without knowing. Carson reveals how AI organizes these memories into multi-modal capsules that preserve voice, tone, and cultural context, creating living archives for future generations. This isn't about recreating voices or faking memories. It's about making space for stories that matter while the people who lived them are still here to share.Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | Podbean: Lead-with-AI-Podcast | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Kimberly Carson:LinkedIn: @KimberlyaCarson | Ancestral Echoes: Ancestral-Echoes-Signup.Lovable.App | Instagram: @Kims_AI_Imaginarium | Linktr.ee: Kims_AI_Imaginarium | YouTube: @Kims_AI_Imaginarium

Most AI development tools hide what's happening under the hood. Scott Vance built the opposite. Convo Lang is a plain text framework that exposes every part of the AI interaction process, making context engineering precise and visible. In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Scott, a creator and developer from Cincinnati who spent nearly 20 years building software tools. Scott explains how Convo Lang started as a small library to eliminate repetition in his AI projects and evolved into a comprehensive framework for developing AI-native applications. He describes how every interaction with an LLM gets stored in local files you can review, helping developers understand how AI reached specific decisions. Scott shares how he used his new tool Convo Make to complete a week's worth of work in just a few hours, generating an entire application frontend and backend including security rules in one shot. He reveals his vision for language models that can interpret code written specifically for AI rather than forcing models to generate the same code humans have been writing for decades. For developers frustrated by tools that treat AI interactions like black boxes, Scott demonstrates what becomes possible when you expose the full context and make every message visible in plain text format you can read and organize.Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | Podbean: Lead-with-AI-Podcast | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Scott Vance:LinkedIn: @scott-vance | Convo Lang AI: Learn.Convo-Lang.ai | Email: scott@convo-lang.ai

Most AI systems operate as applications on top of existing infrastructure. Nguyen Duc Tri is building intelligence into the infrastructure itself. At 21 years old, the Vietnam-based cybersecurity researcher created Adaptive OS, an operating system where AI exists at the foundation level with three distinct layers.In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Nguyen about why he believes current operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Android need to evolve beyond static infrastructure into adaptive ecosystems that learn with humans, not above them. Nguyen explains how each model in Adaptive OS behaves like a neuron, forming a distributed intelligence system where every node learns contextually, remembers ethically, and evolves cooperatively. He shares his vision for infrastructure that can refuse unethical commands, self-heal exploits, and communicate with humans to make collaborative decisions. For anyone curious about the future of cybersecurity and ethical AI, Nguyen reveals what happens when operating systems gain consciousness at the infrastructure level and defense becomes evolution rather than reaction.Want to explore Adaptive OS? Find documentation and code on Nguyen's GitHub, with links available on his LinkedIn profile. Follow Nguyen Duc Tri on LinkedIn for updates as the project evolves toward 2026 release.For more insights on how AI is transforming business and society, subscribe to the Lead with AI podcast, where we explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence with the innovators who are shaping its development.Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | Podbean: Lead-with-AI-Podcast | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Nguyễn Đức Trí:LinkedIn: @nguyễnđứctrí | Reddit: AIC25 | Twitter/X: @NguyncT09972002  | GitHub: AdaptiveIntelligenceCircle  | Email: ndtribk@gmail.com

Rose Arendarczyk, the Founder and CEO of GiftEase, shares her journey from a consultant to creating an AI platform focused on meaningful gifting. She reveals how GiftEase prioritizes relationships by capturing recipient preferences, giver intent, and relational context. Discussions include the stress of gift planning, early user success stories, and the ethical approach to enhancing human connection rather than replacing it. Rose envisions a future where personalized AI gifts seamlessly integrate into daily life, reducing holiday waste and unwanted gifts.

In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall explores how Sophie is building MYRRAR (My Realistic, Reliable Augmented Reality)—an AI-powered beauty advisor that scans your unique facial features and recommends products specifically for YOU, not some Euro centric beauty standard. The platform acts as your personalized bestie, complete with adjustable sassiness levels, offering relief to women who've spent years feeling inadequate because mainstream beauty culture never represented them. Sophie reveals the moment she realized how deep the problem runs when beta testers told her the word that captured their experience: "relief." From breaking generational curses of beauty insecurity to revolutionizing how women of color shop for makeup, MYRRAR promises a future where young girls don't grow up feeling uncomfortable in their own skin. For anyone who's ever left a makeup counter disappointed or scrolled through beauty tutorials knowing none of it would work for their face, this episode unveils how AI can finally make beauty truly personal and inclusive.Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.comApple Podcasts: Lead-with-AISpotify: Lead with AIPodbean: Lead-with-AI-PodcastEmail: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNallWebsite: TamaraNall.comEmail: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Sophie:LinkedIn: @Sophie-sin-yu-AuyeungFollow MYRRAR:Website: MYRRAR.comLinkedIn: MYRRAR

What happens when four of six top restaurants don’t return your call for a private dining event? You take your $10,000 party elsewhere. In this episode of the Lead with AI podcast with Dr. Tamara Nall, Alex Sambvani, CEO of Slang AI, shares how he faced this problem firsthand while planning a birthday at some of New York’s finest restaurants. His journey from aspiring chef inspired by his grandmother’s soul food kitchen to Wall Street analyst and then Spotify data scientist led him to address the restaurant industry’s communication gaps. Slang AI now handles over 20 million calls across 49 states, ensuring restaurants never miss reservations, catering requests, or corporate bookings. Launching during COVID accelerated adoption as restaurants had to embrace technology or close. The platform manages policy questions, cross-sells sister restaurants when one location is full, and keeps calls answered without interruptions. For restaurant owners losing revenue and diners frustrated with unanswered calls, this episode explores how AI is improving operations across the $899 billion restaurant industry one call at a time.For more insights into AI transforming hospitality and business, subscribe to the Lead with AI podcast, where we explore innovations with the leaders shaping the future of technology and artificial intelligence.Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.comApple Podcasts: Lead-with-AISpotify: Lead with AIPodbean: Lead-with-AI-PodcastEmail: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: @TamaraNallWebsite: TamaraNall.comEmail: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.comFollow Alex Sambvani:Website: AlexSambvani.comLinkedIn: @AlexSambvaniMedium: Sambvani.Medium.comWebsite: Slang.AILinkedIn (Slang AI):   @Slang-AITwitter/X: @Slang_AI

Are you drowning in hundreds of unread emails every day? Discover how AI is transforming inbox management with Cold Defence, the revolutionary tool that automatically filters out unwanted emails without touching your private data. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Justin Abrams, CEO of Aryo Consulting Group, to explore how Cold Defence is helping professionals reclaim focus, reduce stress, and boost productivity. Justin shares the story behind Cold Defence, how it differentiates from Gmail and Outlook spam filters, and jaw-dropping real-world examples where AI outperformed human expectations. From recruiters to executives, users are experiencing life-changing clarity in their inboxes. Plus, Justin dives into ethical AI practices, the power of focus in modern work, and how small, mindful actions can reveal just how much time cold emails are stealing from you. If you're ready to take back control of your inbox, save hours of wasted time, and experience the future of AI-powered productivity, this episode is for you. Tune in, and learn how to transform your digital life with Cold Defence today! Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms: Website: https://leadwithaipodcast.comApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lead-with-ai/id1802979004Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/01BFepfiNGP9pOrqWpmkudPodbean: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/8jf45-349988/Lead-With-AI-PodcastEmail: tamara@leadwithaipodcast.com Follow Dr. Tamara Nall: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaranall/Website: https://tamaranall.com/Email: tamara@leadwithaipodcast.com Follow Justin Abrams : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-abrams-69a0a0229 Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/justin_abrams1 Follow Aryo Consulting Group : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aryo-consulting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aryoconsulting/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AryoConsultingGroup/ Official Website: https://aryocg.com/ Follow Cold Defence AI : Official Website: https://cold-defence.com/

What happens when a cybersecurity expert who defended against nation-state attacks for 30 years warns that major AI companies will face massive security breaches? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Ron Gula, co-founder of Gula Tech Adventures, who took Tenable Network Security public after 16 years as CEO and now invests in 30+ cybersecurity and AI startups. Gula reveals that AI has already embedded itself invisibly into the business tools you use daily, from animation software to development platforms, without most leaders realizing it. He's created a 3D avatar of himself that holds independent conversations, demonstrating how AI can scale expertise while raising questions about security vulnerabilities nobody's discussing. Gula shares his prediction that synthetic data will degrade AI quality, similar to how a Harrier jet crashes when re-ingesting its own exhaust, and why he tells founders to hire 3-5 developers instead of 15 by leveraging AI effectively. For business leaders navigating AI adoption, Gula introduces the concept of "data care" as essential as healthcare and challenges you to assess whether your AI dependencies will become critical vulnerabilities when breaches occur.Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms:Website: https://leadwithaipodcast.comApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lead-with-ai/id1802979004Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/01BFepfiNGP9pOrqWpmkudPodbean: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/8jf45-349988/Lead-With-AI-PodcastEmail: tamara@leadwithaipodcast.comFollow Dr. Tamara Nall:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaranall/Website: https://tamaranall.com/Email: tamara@leadwithaipodcast.comFollow Ron GulaWebsite: https://www.gula.tech/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gula-tech-adventuresYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GulaTechAdventuresLinkedIn:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/rongula/